CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Gerrie Coetzee, a former South African boxer and WBA heavyweight champion who defied some of his country's racist laws during the height of apartheid in the 1970s and ...

Former South African and World Boxing Association heavyweight champion, Gerrie Coetzee, known as the Boksburg Bomber, died at his home in Bloubergstrand in the Western Cape yesterday. He would have ...

According to Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports, the South Africa native who was nicknamed "The Boksburg Bomber" and "The Bionic Hand" died of cancer. Coetzee went 33-6-1 during his professional career and is ...

Former heavyweight boxing icon Gerrie Coetzee has died at the age of the 67. The South African giant famously won the world heavyweight title when he beat Michael Dokes in 1983, becoming the first man ...

Gerrie Coetzee, a former South African boxer and World Boxing Association heavyweight champion who defied some of his country’s racist laws during the height of apartheid in the 1970s and 1980s and ...

Durban - FORMER Daily News journalist Farook Khan’s role in helping Africa’s first heavyweight boxing champion, Gerrie Coetzee, could be acknowledged in a movie. Coetzee is a South African former ...

Gerrie Coetzee, a hard-punching South African who won a share of the heavyweight championship in 1983 when he knocked out Michael "Dynamite" Dokes, died Thursday following a short battle with cancer.

South African boxer Gerrie Coetzee was the first boxer from his continent to become a world heavyweight champion, and famously fought Frank Bruno at Wembley Arena Want the day's sports headlines ...